I'M BETWEEN YOU AND HIM

A SHEET OF THE PAST IS REVEALED

Now I and Arif Borne, two men who once attacked each other in a state court, face each other. Look at each other with a sharp look and a tense face.

"Could you leave us both, Miss Rosa?" arif said to Rosa without taking her gaze away from my gaze. Where does he know Rosa's name, I don't know. Only Rosa flinched and looked all wrong.

"It's okay. You better leave us, Ros! There might be a lot he still wants to sort out with me!" I said to Rosa a little insinuating.

"I'll go home first then. Dika! Remember, take care of your emotions! This is Pak Anjar's territory!" rosa whispered to me. He left me standing straight in front of Arif Borne.

"We're looking for a more comfortable place. How's it?" his advice asked me in a lower voice.

"okay!"

We walked together to leave the gate of Pak Anjar's house. Getting further away from the safe zone. And I prepared for all possibilities. He could have cheated on me from behind. Personally, I can't guess.

There is a small park with long chairs. Arif pointed there and I followed him from behind.

He sat quietly. I threw my butt in the long wooden chair sitting next to him. Arif took out a pack of cigarettes and thrust them at me. I refuse to say that I have stopped smoking.

Arif took a stick, lit a fire through his lighter and sucked it deep. I just kept quiet while watching him. It seemed like he was compiling words in his head to make them come out to me.

"How's Vika doing?" tanyanya. I snorted with a slight smile, it turned out he was just talking to his ex-wife.

"I don't know! We haven't been in touch for a long time. Vika and I are no longer together. Is that all you want to tell me, Mr Arif Borne? You're more annoying than I thought! You're wasting my precious time!" I was angry with him.

"I'm sorry I took a grudge against you and was determined to put you in jail." I was silent because I was shocked by his words.

"Thank you! You have given me the most precious experience of my life!"

"I know you're still angry and upset with me. Maybe they still hold grudges. I understand and accept your strictness to me because of that incident!"

I kept quiet and did not intend to answer.

"I was upset that my wife ran away with another man and collected kebo until she became pregnant. I'm just satisfied after seeing you forcibly herded into jail." He said it made me take a deep breath.

"I'm sorry for that. I'm guilty and you have the right to punish me!"

We are both silent. Think and remember the grim past mistakes.

"My mother was his secretary. My mother was persuaded by her papa until she was made to fall madly in love with her papa Vika. I was 10 years old when my mother and my father had a big fight because my mother suddenly asked for a divorce from my father. Apparently, the mother was lulled by the promise of her father Vika who promised to make her a wife. My mother left the house to drive her car at high speed. The accident took his life. My father and I were very sad and sad. But it turns out that papa Vika actually reversed the facts by ruining my mother's good name even when she was gone. She said my mother was a woman who always pursued her because of her possessions, throne and position. Though some of my friends know that the man who always seduced and seduced my mother to turn away from my father. I, can only cry alone when I see my father who is severely depressed must be taken to a mental hospital for hurting me and the people around. I, an 11-year-old boy, have to accept the fact that my family is ruined because of that damn guy. I might not be able to live as I am now if I was not adopted by Mr. Anjar, my father's superior at that time."

I lowered my head not knowing what to say about Arif's story.

"Sir Anjarlah who sent me to finish S1. But I chose to stay in the dorm rather than live in the midst of their happy family. I've been monitoring Vika's family since I was in Junior High. I chose the same school as him. Trying to get close to Vika and sweet-tempered to her. Then when High School, Mr. Anjar sent me a boarding school in Semarang. Until I can't continue I mean get close to Vika. But apparently time is on my side. We went back to college at the same place. I began to launch my moves to make Vika fall in love with me. I tried to suppress my ego so that my plan would succeed in conquering Vika's heart. Because I know, Vika is just her favorite child. Of course, if I managed to master Vika, I indirectly managed to master her papa. After many sacrifices, I managed to marry Vika and got a chance to take care of some of her papa companies. I, who had held a grudge against them for so long, deliberately made their company fall and fall. I only hold Vika with the intention of destroying her family without remaining. But I was so sweet to Vika that Vika always stood up for me in front of her father and mother. Until his father died in shock seeing the destruction of his companies because of me. I'm still not satisfied because it turns out that her mother was smart enough to withstand the destruction of their family. But it didn't last long. God gave me a chance to grant all my prayers. Mama Vika died as more debt accumulated making the remaining companies also bankrupt. I'm very satisfied to see all that. I have gone from being a little boy who can only cry alone in the dark to being a demon disguised as a human. My heart is possessed by demons of deep sadness and hatred into a grudge that blazes all my life."

Arif crying. Covering his face reddened and wet with tears. I was glued to her.

"I thought back to being myself because I felt sorry for Vika. We are two human beings who are both alone, wounded and have no one. I then took Vika to move to Batam to start a new life. Opening a new page to achieve happiness together. That's hope. Armed with money from Mr. Anjar, I started again everything myself from the beginning. But it turns out that Vika actually hates me and tells me that I am his shameless and self-respecting family. He ruined my efforts with all his efforts. In fact, he also seduced my business partners by inviting him to marry siri because my partner has an entertainment cafe business in a strategic location in the middle of Batam city. I beat him up and punched him in the face because he offered to be a bedmate if anyone dared to pay him a high price. I cried regretting the climax of my behavior that was already like the devil in Vika at our little house. Wish he'd come home, and I'd bow down apologizing to his leg while treating the wound on his face. I am so sorry for the violence against him. It was the first time I hit him and the second time I slapped him after the airport cafe. All this time I never once snapped at him, scolded him let alone hit him. For God's sake, never done it before!"

Arif gulped his saliva for a moment wiping away the tears that were shed. I remained silent

heard story. I saw sincerity sparkling in his dim, empty eyes. The story is not fabrication. And I saw the other side of her that was so sick and so badly injured that it made her so fragile.

"I lost Vika for a while. Then my blood boiled again when I met him at a supermarket in Jakarta when I was having a business deal at a cafe near the supermarket. Vika spat in my face and said that now her life is good because she has found a man who loves her. I came back with a personality that hated him and his family. I'm heartbroken. At that time, I wanted to reopen our relationship. But it turns out that the arrogance of his father like moving on to him now makes my wounds bigger and gaping. I destroyed it once again. Destroying you too. I would even charge you with 10 years in prison if only your wife hadn't come to me and begged me for mercy."

"Replace? Ranti came to see you?"

"Yes. At that time he was crying while holding a sweet female toddler. That must be your son, right? He begged me not to give him too much of an indictment because you are not entirely guilty. That's what he said, and I still remember all of his words to this day. He was also willing to testify on my side so I wouldn't give him a prison sentence of over 5 years. Because he did not want his son did not know his father because he was imprisoned for too long. I admitted his persistence and finally the judge's verdict only fell to you for 2 years."

I just found out that Ranti is fighting for me too. All this time I thought Ranti didn't care about me because she hated my immoral treatment that tore her heart and feelings apart. Until never once Ranti visited me in the rutan. Never once accepted my apology let alone a word of comfort.

Randy! How you are my wife who so faithfully loves me. Randy!!! My tears falling down made me feel ashamed.

Me and Arif both cried, but with different regrets. Why the mystery of our lives is so bitter. Makes us two grown men who are still mighty crying sobbing give up losing.

Oh God! Why did all this happen to us? Is this story to forge us into a better person? But why is this bitter pill of life so hard to lose even though the fruit of success we have eaten? O Allah, my tears are getting louder with my promises in my heart.

Randy! I will fight back to win your heart again. I'm not willing to let you belong to someone else. I will try so hard to get you back to me because now I know your heart is only for me. And I'm a stupid man who would be too stupid to let you get further and away from me because now I'm sure, my destiny is to be with you.

Oh Allah. Please grant my wish!

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